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Prospective

SCHEDULE 2U.K.(This Schedule reproduces the provisions of Annex I to the Conventional Directive)

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 2 in force at 20.3.2006, see reg. 1(2)

THE TRANS-EUROPEAN CONVENTIONAL RAIL SYSTEMU.K.

COMPATIBILITY OF THE TRANS-EUROPEAN CONVENTIONAL RAILWAY SYSTEMU.K.

3.  The quality of rail services in Europe depends, inter alia, on excellent compatibility between the characteristics of the infrastructure (in the broadest sense, ie the fixed parts of all the subsystems concerned) and those of the rolling stock (including the onboard components of all the subsystems concerned).erformance levels, safety, quality of service and cost depend upon that compatibility.